SEOUL: The de facto leader of South Korea's sprawling Samsung group Lee Jae-yong was convicted on Tuesday of illegally using the anesthetic drug propofol, the latest legal travail to beset the multibillionaire.
Lee — the vice chairman of the world's biggest smartphone maker Samsung Electronics and according to Forbes the world's 238th richest person — was fined 70 million won ($60,000) by the Seoul Central District Court, Yonhap news agency reported.
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